The Book of Howth - by Valerie McGowan-Doyle (Hardcover)

Book Synopsis

This study provides the first sustained address of The Book of Howth and its compiler, Christopher St. Lawrence, 7th baron of Howth (ca. 1510-1589). The Book of Howth ultimately offers a unique and extended Old English perspective on colonial conflict, displacement and identity formation in response to the Tudor question of "failed" conquest and the measures of reform government it generated.

Review Quotes

The Book of Howth is an important work for understanding the complexity of Old English identity in Tudor Ireland and its place within Elizabethan politics. It fills several gaps in the historical record and in recent scholarship about the conflicts between the diminishing Old English and the New English who sought to replace them in continued drive for request.--Larissa Tracy

Written in the 1570s by the seventh baron of Howth, Christopher St Lawrence, the text is an invaluable aid to anyone studying the effects of the growing power of the New English and their regime in Dublin Castle. [...] Valerie McGowan Doyle, a lecturer in Irish and British history at Kent State University and John Carroll University, has rendered the manuscript accessible to 21^st century readers. Her book is handsome, fascinating and, above all, readable. It is to her that we owe our thanks for making St Lawrence's book academically respectable again.--Noeleen Dowling "The Irish Times"